Bachelor button



(No Model.)

J. F. PLATT.

BACHELOR BUTTON.

310.488,21). Patented Deo. 20, 1892.

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JOSEPH FPLATT, OF VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

BACHELOR BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,219, dated December20, 1892.

Application iilcd .Tuly '7, 1892. Serial No. 439,276. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, JOSEPH F. PLATZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and useful Bachelor Button, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to buttons and especially to that class in whichthe head is automatically looked to the shank and commonly known asbachelor buttons and the object thereof is to provide a button of thecharacter set forth of simplified construction and wherein the shank'isadjustable to different thicknesses of cloth, and with this object inview the invention consists of the construction and arrangement of theparts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawingsz-Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view of one form ofthe button shown applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the parts ofthe button shown in Fig. l disconnected. Fig. 3 is a view similar toFig. 1 of a slightly different form of the button. Fig. 4. is a viewsimilar to Fig. 2 of the button shown in Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and 6 showdetail perspective views of slightly different forms of the shank.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the several figures.

Referring to Figs. l and 2 of the drawings, the numeral l, designates aback disk having a depending socket 2, and an upper iiange 3. Thedepending socket is of conical shape and has a cavitied or struck upbottom 4, with a central opening 5. A cup 6, is placed in the socket 2,and is formed with an upper flange 7 which rests on the flange 3, of thesaid back disk 1. The said cup isalso of conical form and is formed witha struck up or indented bottom 7X, having a slit 8 extendingtransversely across the same and upward into the sides and terminatingin apertures 9, which permit the parts of the cup on each side of theslit to yield or spread apart. In the center of the bottom of the cup isalso formed an opening 10, which aligns with the opening 5, in thebottom of the socket 2. On the back disk is placed a cap plate or disk11, having an extended ange which is swaged down over and against thelower side of the iiange 3 of the back disk and is also provided with acentral struck up portion 12 to give extended entrance to the shank aswill b-e hereinafter more fully referred to. The head of the button isthus completed, and it will be observed consists of three parts only.

In Figs. 3 and 4. the socket 2, of the back disk l, as shown in Figs. 1and 2is drawn up or indented at its lower end and slotted transverselyas at 13, and in this instance the cup 6, is dispensed with. In otherrespects the construction of the head is the same, and by means of thelatter construction a great saving of metal and labor results.

In Figs. 2 and 4 a shank 14, is shown having a shoe 15, and formed withcircumferential square shouldered recesses 16, two of the latter beingshown in connection with each shank in said figures. In Fig. 5 the shankis formed with one recess 16, and in Fig. 6 with three of said recesses.In all the forms of the shank the upper end is pointed as at 17, tofacilitate passing the same through the fabric and dispensing with theadditional use of a needle or analogous device for such purpose. Thedifferent numbers of recesses in the several shanks provide forattaching the device to dierent thicknesses of fabric to which thebutton is to be applied, and it will be understood that the shank willbe correspondingly elongated as the number of recesses therein isincreased.

The opening in the parts heretofore set forth with which the shanklocks,will be nor'- mally slightly less in diameter than the said shank, butowing to the slitted construction the same yields and the metal wallsthereof snap u'nder the square shouldered recess of the shank with whichthey are to engage. The square shouldered recess formation preventsslipping cf the shank after it is once seated. After the shank issnapped in place, and the strain on the head tends to draw the engagingpart with the shank in a firm and tighter manner as will be readilyseen.

In the form of device shown by Figs. 1 and 2, the hole in the bottom ofthe socket 2, and the hole in the cup 6, form two bearing surfaces toengage the double recesses of the shank and tends to keep the buttonhead from shifting on the fabric and shank. The bottom concavity of thesocket and cup pro- IOO opening in its slot, and the said slot in thecup terminating in openings at the upper ends thereof on opposite sides,said plate further consisting of a Iiange secured to the head, and ashank having one or more recesses therein, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in Athe presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH F. PLATT.

Witnesses:

JAMES: J i EGAN,

CHAs. 'WILLETTn

